Improvement in buckles



S. H. DUUGHTY.

Buckles. 10.138,487. Patented May 6,1873.

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SAMUEL H. DOUGHTY, OF NYACK, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,487, dated May 6, 1873; application led March 22, 1873.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, SAMUEL H. DOUGHTY, of Nyack, Rockland county, State of New York, have invented certain Improvements relating to Buckles or Adjustable Fastenin gs, of which the following is a specification:

The improvement is intended more especially for waist-fastenings and belt-fastenings for ladies dresses, and is based on the invention patented June 12, 1866, by'I. N. Plotts; and

central sliding bar, and returned again on the same side of the frame from which it entered.

This draws the bar forcibly to one side, and

constitutes a species of jambuckle, which is capable of as delicate adjustment of length as may be desired without any perforation of the material. The other side of the frame, instead of being sewn to the opposite end of the belt asin Plot-tsl, engages and disen gages therewith by means of a simple hook and eye.

The vfollowin g is a description of what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

The accompanying drawing forms a part of this specification.

Figure lis a front view 5 Fig. 2, a back view and Fig. 3, a horizontal section.

In all the figures the ends of the belt are shown a little separated. It will be easy t0 see how they will stand when joined together by engaging the hook.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

A1 A2 are the two ends of the belt, which may be of leather or other suitable flexible material. B is the buckle-frame, and O the movable cross-bar, which serves relatively to one end, A1, of the belt and the adjacent side of the frame B in the same manner as in the said Plotts7 fastening. To the other end, A2, of the belt is fastened a hook, D, adapted to engage with an eye formed on thc adjacent side or edge of the frame B. E is an ornamental frame attached to the hook D, and which contributes to the tasty appearance of the belt.

Instead of attaching a hook to the end A2 of the belt, and allowing it to engage in an eye, B2, on the frame, the hook and eye may be reversed in their positions, and the eye carried on the end A2 of the belt, while the hook is formed on 0r attached to the buckle-frame at the point B2.

With the Plotts buckle, as heretofore used, the labor of introducing the end Al of the belt each time the belt is put on is very serious. This difficulty my invention completely overcomes. Y

ln applying my invention with solid-faced ornaments on the hooks, I can use the form of hook shown in Figs. 4 and 5, where Fig.4 is a view of the back face, and Fig. 5 is a section The end A2 of the belt is engaged with the hook by means of the bent spurs e c, which are clenched firmly through holes in the belt, as shown.

I claim as my invention- The within-described fastening having a hook and eye, D B2, in combination with the frame B and sliding -bar C, serving relatively to each other and to a belt, A1 A2, as and for the purposes herein speciiied.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of March, 1872, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL H. DOUGHTY.

Witnesses:

WM. C. DEY, THOMAS D. STETsoN. 

